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With the Heart of a Ghost by Lim Sunwoo, trans. by Chi-Young Kim

Lim Sunwoo's With the Heart of a Ghost features eight intriguing, unpredictable stories, each narrated in chatty first person, as if intimately inviting readers to listen, even join, quirky conversations. A prize-winning debut in Korea, Lim's collection arrives translated by Chi-Young Kim, who also brought the groundbreaking Korean titles Please Look After Mom and Whale to Anglophone audiences. In the titular opening story, a bakery worker realizes she's not dead, just face-to-face with her own ghostly self.

One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate by Ej Dickson

Ej Dickson opens One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate with colorful admissions about her own parental shortcomings, setting the tone for a radically honest discussion of the "stigma surrounding bad mothers. " Societal shaming of mothers and the resulting disempowerment of women is the subject of this provocative and entertaining work.

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